After spending a few enjoyable nights with Amy and family in their nice warm house, we spend the last night in Canberra in the van at Eagle Hawk. Couldn't be bothered cooking so we had dinner at the Eagle Hawk Hotel, which they tell us is closing in a few weeks as the new owners want to tart the place up. The van park is more of a cabin coral with a few random van sites. It's also the #1 place for large groups who come to Canberra on school trips etc. Kids - 1000's of them! Not really a problem except the insisted on taking the direct route from cabin to food - right through our site instead of the roadway which would have delayed them 23 seconds.
We had the van nice and toasty when the power dropped out. Rats. It was soon restored and the night passed uneventfully, snuggled down under our doona and three blankets. Woke to find the van an ice box and... no power. Only way to cope was a hot shower and porridge,jump into lots of warm clothes and get back on the road.
We elected to go north up the highway and turn down the Macs Reef Road to Bungendore and then back up to Tarago and across to Nerriga before the easier than the Clyde run down to the coast. We had been across once before and there seemed to be less dirt road than last time - 3k from Tarago to Nerriga and 8k on the last leg across to the highway.
Made it into Conjola to find the van park undergoing some well overdue work on the sites we normally use, so we took one of the new ones right down the other end and near to the amenities. Had lunch and restocked the van in Milton before returning to a take a stroll along the beach. First thing one notices is that the lake no longer empties into the sea, it's completely blocked and wont be reopened until it floods next.
No snaps today, but some sure to come along in the next day or two.
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